Procedures

This document is meant to serve as a guide for our standard procedures in case of emergencies, errors, upgrades, or other maintenance tasks.

• Adding and restoring backups
  • Adding a directory to be backed up
  • Restoring files from backups
• Adding a new VM using ansible
  • Step 1: Adding the VM to the DNS
  • Step 2: Creating the VM
  • Step 3: Adding the VM to the inventory
• Resizing a partition in a VM
  • Step 1: Resize the logical volume on the hypervisor
  • Step 2: Ask to QEMU to refresh the disk
  • Step 3: Resize the disk in the VM
  • Step 4: reflect the change in the playbook
• Removing a VM
  • Step 0: Do backups and verify the VM is not needed
  • Step 1: Shutting down the VM
  • Step 2: Remove the VM from ansible
  • Step 3: Remove it from all playbooks
  • Step 4: Clean the DNS
  • Step 5: Clean up the ssh key from ansible bastion
  • Step 6: Clean up of the other systems
  • Step 7: Removal of the VM
• Installation of a new server
  • Step 1: Openssh
  • Step 2: Upgrade
  • Step 3: Install the ssh keys
  • Step 4: Add it to ansible inventory
• Connecting to the admin remote interface in the community cage
  • Step 1: Setting up a tunnel with ssh
  • Step 2: Connecting to the web interface
  • Step 3: Connecting to VNC
• Adding a bridge on a hypervisor
  • Step 1: Creating the bridge with nmcli
  • Step 2: Complete the ansible configuration
• Finding network information in the Community cage
  • Step 1: Connect to the hypervisor as root
  • Step 2: Run tcpdump to capture traffic
  • Step 3: Dissect the dump with tshark
• Requesting a Loaner Machine
  • How to Request
  • How to Handle a Loaner Request
• Adding a email alias
  • Step 1: Clone the private repository
  • Step 2: Add the alias
  • Step 3: Trigger a deploy
• Adding a new mailling list
• Banning and unbanning email on all lists
  • Banning a address
  • Seeing the current list of ban
  • Unbanning a address
• Gerrit Upgrade
  • Upgrade Steps
  • Post Upgrade Testing